I almost feel sorry for the Republicans (but not really)

[rbrnmw]

They know they are in for some serious down ballot losses, because have the most ignorant candidate to ever run for the Presidency. However they have been courting those nutcases who voted for him for decades

[JustAnotherGen]

1. I almost feel sorry for them

Then I remember the Contract On America and think - eh?

No.

Suck it up baby. Suck it up.

[TDale313]

2. Not me.

They've earned the losses that are hopefully coming.

[KMOD]

3. They created this monster.

I hope some are learning a valuable lesson.

[BigDemVoter]

4. I think of Citizens United. . . .

I think of GWB stealing the WH. . . . I think of ALL the gross and inept attempts to destroy the Affordable Care Act. . .

I don't feel even a tingle of pity for them. They deserve it and much, much, much worse.

[Big Blue Marble]

5. You are joking?

They did this to themselves.

[Wounded Bear]

13. If they just did it to themselves, I could squeeze out some pity....

[font size=75]But they did this to us![/font]

[Big Blue Marble]

16. You are so right.

They did it to us all. And in the process, they are destroying themselves.

[maxsolomon]

6. I don't, not in the least

They deserve every last drop of this bitter draft.

I hope it destroys the GOP and the CONservative movement for the rest of my life.

[bravenak]

7. Everytine I feel sorry for them I remember how they obstructed O for the past eight years

They deserve this.

[lillypaddle]

8. After the way they have treated our President?

Ryan and McConnell? Are you shitting me?

[Agnosticsherbet]

9. They have hoisted themselves on their own Petard.

Not sorry at all.

[MichiganVote]

10. They'll be alright. Trump's delusional, they're delusional-perfect match.

[63splitwindow]

11. No way. Never. These scum want you under their thumb and society going backwards.

[sheshe2]

12. Sorry, no.

They made their bed and now they can sleep forever on soiled sheets.

[moonscape]

14. I don't feel badly for them collectively, but do feel badly

for intelligent individuals in the Republican Party. I know a few of those.

If the Democratic Party went totally off the rails, leaving me completely homeless, I'd feel badly for me too.

[Hortensis]

17. Agree, BUT. This wouldn't happen in the

Democratic Party. Not this bad. We wouldn't nominate a Trump, no matter how he appealed to one bloc or another.

Liberals especially are less communal and less conforming than conservatives. We're more likely to be repelled than attracted to authoritarian figures and not nearly so prone to dutifully coloring within lines drawn for us by others. There are limits to our loyalty. We're not wonderfully honest with ourselves, but compared to conservatives we are definitely more likely to check facts and ditch the liars than ditch the journals that reveal them for what they are. And so on.

If the Democratic Party went off the rails, you'd be standing up there on the tracks with crowds of others who'd also jumped off beforehand, wondering how it went so wrong.

[rufus dog]

15. Never

They have not admitted any fault, accepted any blame. Not only for Trump, but for the Trickle Down Economics, the Iraq War, slamming Kerry, Sarah Palin.

They need a good 12 Step Program. If they can't comprehend the damage they have done they won't correct their behavior.

[Stellar]

18. Donald did say that he loves the uneducated.

[gratuitous]

19. Nope, not a bit of it

As you point out, the Republicans have been sowing this ground for 40 years or more, and they've reaped a bumper crop of whirlwind. It would be too bad if they had never urped up a candidate like Donald Trump, and for years they didn't. Every election cycle that went by without producing a hack on the level of Trump merely staved off the inevitable unless Republicans changed their ways. They didn't get a Trump for all those years, but instead of changing their policies, they kept pushing all in. Their bet has been called, and it's time for them to turn over their 9-high hand of squat-ah.